California to wrap up Exxon plastics probe 'in weeks', AG says
) and the fossil fuel industry's role in causing global plastic pollution by summer and decide if it will file a lawsuit against oil giant, its attorney general told Reuters on Monday.
"We are soon going to be ready to get to a decision based on all of our investigations in the coming weeks," Attorney General Rob Bonta told Reuters. "The lies and deceit Exxon used to cover up the truth about the non-recyclability of plastic is well documented." "In an ideal world we could have made an announcement in Ottawa as part of a discussion of where we go from here, but it didn’t work out," he said.
The company currently has around a dozen advanced recycling projects. It aims to have the capacity to process 1 billion pounds of plastic waste by year-end 2026.
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